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    This document summarizes the key characteristics of plants in the Solanaceae family. It describes their habit as mostly herbs and shrubs, with tap roots and erect, branched stems. Their leaves are simple, alternate with reticulate venation. Flowers are bisexual, complete and actinomorphic with 5 sepals, 5 petals, 5 stamens and a bicarpellary syncarpous gynoecium. Fruits are berries and seeds are many and endospermic. Economically important plants in this family include potato, brinjal, tomato, ashwagadha, belladona and chilli.

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    This document summarizes the key characteristics of plants in the Solanaceae family. It describes their habit as mostly herbs and shrubs, with tap roots and erect, branched stems. Their leaves are simple, alternate with reticulate venation. Flowers are bisexual, complete and actinomorphic with 5 sepals, 5 petals, 5 stamens and a bicarpellary syncarpous gynoecium. Fruits are berries and seeds are many and endospermic. Economically important plants in this family include potato, brinjal, tomato, ashwagadha, belladona and chilli.

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    This document summarizes the key characteristics of plants in the Solanaceae family. It describes their habit as mostly herbs and shrubs, with tap roots and erect, branched stems. Their leaves are simple, alternate with reticulate venation. Flowers are bisexual, complete and actinomorphic with 5 sepals, 5 petals, 5 stamens and a bicarpellary syncarpous gynoecium. Fruits are berries and seeds are many and endospermic. Economically important plants in this family include potato, brinjal, tomato, ashwagadha, belladona and chilli.

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    PLANT TAXONOMY

    Solanaceae

    Potato family eg-Solanum nigrum.


    1. Habit-mostly herbs and shrubs, rarely trees,
    2. Root-tap root, branched
    3. Stem-Erect, woody, aerial, cylindrical, branched, hairy.
    4. Leaves.Simple, Alternate, reticulate venation.
    Floral Character
    5. Inflorescence- Solitary, Cymose, sometimes axillary. ,
    6. Flower-Bisexual, actinomorphic, Complete, pedicellate,hypogynous.
    7. Calyx Sepals 5. gamosepalous, persistent, valvate aestivation.
    8. Corolla. Petals 5, gamopetalous, valvate aestivation
    9. Androecium- Stamens five, epipetalous, Anther dithecous with apical pore.
    10. Gynoecium-Bicarpellary Syncarpous, bilocular, ovary superior, placenta swollen with
    many ovules, ovary obliquely placed - (due to turning of the posterior carpel to the right and
    anterior carpel to the left)
    11. Fruit- Berry with persistent calyx-eq-Brinjal tomato.
    12. Seed-Many, endospermic
    Economically Important plants:
    Food- Solanum tuberosum –Potato
    Solanum melongena – Brinjal
    Lycopersicon esculentum – Tomato
    Medicine- Withania somnifera-Ashwagadha
    Atropa belladona –belladona
    Petunia exserta – Petunia
    Capsicum annuum – Chilli
    Nicotiana tabacum- Tobacco

    Floral Formula-

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